@poki_pongo: "Md. Holocaust Survivor Makes a Point of Speaking Out
Klaus Zwilsky, 74, of Calvert County MD, is a Holocaust survivor. However,
his story is relatively unique among Jews who emerged from the horrors of
Nazi Germany. He was not sent to a concentration camp, nor did he spend
World War II hiding in the home of a sympathtic non-Jew. Instead, Zwilsky
survived in a Jewish hospital in Berlin, with the knowledge, and consent, of
the Nazi government.
[...]
Zwilsky is one of twenty who were interviewed for Daniel B. Silver's book
"Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis." The book
details how the 800 or so Jews living in the hospital managed to survive in
the capital of Nazi Germany. Causes range from bureaucratic infighting to
German leader Adolf Hitler's ambivalence about how to handle Jews of German
descent to the simple fact that the Nazis needed a place to treat Jews.
[...]
"Certainly there was fear," he said. At times, they almost wished to be sent
off to a camp, just to relieve themselves of the constant threat of danger.
They did not know at this time that places like Theresienstadt were not
relocation camps but places for Jews to be held before they were sent to
their death at another location. Zwilsky and his family did not learn about
many of these things until after the war.
"We didn't know at the time," he said, that the Nazis were systematically
executing Jews. "You find out all these things afterwards."
Source:
By Ben Blumberg
Washington Post Scholarship Winner
Monday, May 14, 2007; 1:54 PM
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    @onlytetruth: ""Doomsday Cultist" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
They didn't know, dopey, because there was no systematic executing of jews, 
by Nazis or anyone."
    @poki_pongo: "<quote>
diseases.
One of the peculiarities of typhus is the way in which it tends to cause
serious epidemics, flaring up suddenly and coinciding with the previous
occurrence of some serious public calamity. Populations in the throes of war
or famine fell victim to the disease, which caused numerous deaths,
sometimes as many as hundreds of thousands. Thus originated certain
expressive synonyms, such as �camp typhus�, �famine typhus�, �jail typhus�
by which the disease has sometimes been known. As one author so truly says,
the history of typhus is the history of human misfortune.
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